Bengali-speaking migrant family in Delhi threatened, claims Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (July 29, 2025) claimed {that a} Bengali-speaking girl and her baby, who had been allegedly assaulted in Delhi, had been “threatened”.

Ms. Banerjee had shared a video on social media, alleging {that a} Bengali-speaking girl and her baby had been assaulted within the nationwide capital for talking their language.

The Delhi Police, nonetheless, known as the video, shared by Banerjee on social media, “fabricated” and “politically motivated”.

“They had been taken to numerous police stations simply as I had predicted yesterday. They had been threatened. We wish them to return again, and whoever is talking the reality and who’s mendacity shall be proved ultimately,” Banerjee mentioned in Birbhum district.

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She mentioned that Bengali-speaking migrant staff in BJP-ruled states ought to come again to Bengal if they’re subjected to harassment.

Delhi’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Abhishek Dhania mentioned that the police took instant cognisance of the video shared on ‘X’ by the West Bengal CM, the place she claimed that the girl and her baby had been brutally assaulted by Delhi Police personnel.

“Throughout sustained questioning, the girl admitted that her relative, a political employee from Malda district in West Bengal, had requested her to make the video. The video was then circulated domestically in Bengal and later surfaced on social media,” the officer added.